IMO, Killing off Jake was GH giving up on any future story. They gave up on the next generation. That kid could have driven story for years........he was the next Phillip Spaulding....the next Lily Walsh.....the next, well, Jason Morgan!! Imagine the fall out when he found out who his real father was. After living the life of lies. Thinking Lucky was his father. All the while, the hitman raising another child is his bio dad. It could have been amazing, but they dropped it like a ton of bricks!!